This study presents an analysis of a severe weather case that took place
during the early morning of the 2nd of November 2008, when intense
convective activity associated with a rapidly evolving low pressure system
affected ...

On the night from 1st to 2nd of November 2008, a multi-cell storm coming from the
Mediterranean produced severe weather in the coastal area of Catalonia (NE Spain): groundlevel
strong damaging wind gusts, a tornado – ...

Comparisons of simulated downward negative leaders with experimental measurements are presented in this
paper. In order to simplify, the leaders are considered to progress vertically and charge distributions and leader ...

The main objective of this study was to give insight into the temporal and spatial aspects of lightning
activity during the life cycle of diverse types of thunderstorms, and to examine the possible
relationships with ...

This study presents an analysis of a severe weather case study that took place during the early morning of the 2nd of November 2008, when intense convective activity associated to a rapidly evolving low pressure system ...

Electric fields related to lightning close to storms were measured in the Catalonian region (NE of
Spain) in summer 2003. The aim of this campaign was the data collection to study the total electrical
charge involved in ...

The size and duration of lightning flashes are examined. Data from the Ebro Valley Laboratory Lightning Mapping Array is used as reference. Additional data from the VLF/LF LINET network is included. In the analysis, each ...

What are the characteristics of lightning that influence the probability that an individual stroke
will ignite a wildfire? It is generally accepted that long continuing current following some return
strokes is the cause ...

Lightning detections of the Catalan Lightning Location Network (XDDE) are
compared with high speed video recordings carried out in Spain during
summer 2009. At that time the XDDE was composed by four sensors: two SAFIR
3000 ...

Lightning is one of the major threats to multi-megawatt wind turbines and a concern for modern aircraft due to the use of lightweight composite materials. Both wind turbines and aircraft can initiate lightning, and very ...

This paper summarizes results obtained by the 2009–2010 field campaigns conducted in northeastern Spain using a high speed camera, VHF interferometer, VLF lightning location system and scintillation detectors for energetic ...

High-speed video recordings of natural lightning flashes
show amazing details of this phenomenon. The paper
summarizes the results of the 2009 measurement campaign
where the combination of electric fields, total ...

in this paper size and duration of lightning flashes are
examined. Data from the Ebro Valley Laboratory Lightning Mapping Array is used as reference. Additional data from the VLF/LF LINET network and meteorological radar ...

Lightning current parameters derived from Lightning Location Systems (LLS) have been used in the past to assess their influence in the local performance of the Network. The paper presents an analysis of the statistical ...

In this paper we present the evolution of a bidirectional leader which appeared in ‘virgin’ air. In the observations we did not find any delay between the onsets of the two leader ends. The positive leader end presented a ...